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TV broadcast licenses sold, await transfer

For years, a battle for advertising dollars to support three television stations here has stretched the budgets of local businesses needing to get products and services out to the public. Two of those stations will go off the air as their licenses are transferred to new owners.

Town may hire code enforcement officer

Pahrump Town Board members considered the merits of hiring a code enforcement officer during last night’s regular board meeting.

DEVELOPING: NCSO sergeant busted in drug sting

A Nye County Sheriff’s sergeant was ensnared in a drug sting and arrested over the weekend after a subordinate became suspicious of the superior officer’s insistence that he be the one to book a bottle of pills into evidence.

Federal budget bill doesn’t fund PILT payments

The much heralded bi-partisan 2014 budget bill passed by Congress recently doesn’t include funding for the Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program, in which the federal government attempts to reimburse counties for the property value of federally-managed land.

Last Chance Park application gets fresh endorsement

Pahrump Town Manager Susan Holecheck picked up the endorsement of Nye County commissioners Tuesday on the town board’s application for a recreation and public purpose lease from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management for the long-proposed Last Chance Park.

Crime Corner

COPS: Ex-employee arrested for pawning stolen inventory

Kinder, gentler impact fee ordinance OK’d

The agenda item was supposed to be about merely altering the impact fee ordinance to allow payments in installments, but two county commissioners Tuesday ended up voicing their opposition to the fees.

Nye supports lawsuit against SNWA pipeline

Nye County commissioners Tuesday voted to support the Central Nevada Regional Water Authority, which signed on as a plaintiff in an expected lawsuit opposing the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s pipeline project.

Hearing held in arson suspect’s ID case

Defense counsel for a woman accused of attempting to procure a driver’s license under another person’s name to avoid prosecution claimed during a preliminary hearing this week their client wasn’t attempting to obtain another identity, but rather to renew her sister’s expired license for her.

Deal in works to close Kingdom strip club

Local residents may notice a wholesome new look at the intersection of State Route 160 and Homestead later this year.

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